Directors Cuts of Iconic Films That Surpass The Originals

The Big Red One

This film is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Samuel Fuller's service during WWII. Fuller's original cut was 113 minutes long and didn't play into the emotion that was felt during the war. The 160-minute cut premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and garnered a completely different reaction from viewers. They were obsessed, moved, and saw it as revolutionary. Sadly, Fuller had passed away long before his final cut of the film was ever released.

The More You Know

Beck Hansen wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band S*x Bob-omb in the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World".
The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002.

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